Re: Wheezy VirtualBox guest 1920x1080 resolution
On Fri, 02 May 2014, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> On Thu, 2014-05-01 at 15:46 -0700, Patrick Bartek wrote:
> > I'm assuming you installed Virtualbox from the "official" Debian
> > Repo, and not from Oracle's Virtualbox Debian repo.
>
> What ever way, for what ever distro I chose, I always build VBox
> modules using DKMS.
>
> Assumed you set up on provided packages, then you limit yourself on
> provided kernels. Those provided kernels are unlikely good for special
> needs.
The only part of Virtualbox that requires DKMS rebuilding IIRC is its
kernel module. And that only happens with a kernel upgrade. The other
binaries don't change. At least, they haven't on my system.
FWIW, I've had several "security" kernel upgrades since installing
Wheezy 64-bit last May, and the VB kernel module didn't require
rebuilding even though the system is set up to do so. I guess the
kernel didn't change enough to require it. An advantage of using
Stable, I guess.
B
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